Listen to and view the The NY conversations , a project by Nico Dockx, Anton Vidokle and Rirkrit Tiravanija upon the occasion of A Prior Magazine issue #18 with the participation of many from 26-28 July 2008 at 41 Essex Street in New York’s lower east side.

The New York Conversations

William Hogarth c. 1730-5

On the occasion of the making of A Prior Magazine #18 and the opening of the new e-flux space, A Prior Magazine is happy to present The New York Conversations with Nico Dockx, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Anton Vidokle

Partcipants:
Liam Gillick, Martha Rosler, Louwrien Wijers, Jan Verwoert, Miwon Kwon, Marti Peran, Sis Matthé, Egon Hanfstingl and A Prior editors Anders Kreuger, Dieter Roelstraete, Monika Szewczyk, Andrea Wiarda and Els Roelandt.

Daily food and conversation sessions 26-27-28 june
Hours: 1pm till 3 pm and 8pm till 10pm

Where: 41 Essex Street, NYC, NY 10002*

*This event is free but there is limited seating so please make your reservation by sending an email to Els Roelandt (Please also state what day and hour you want to come, please only enlist for one session so to give others a chance to join too). A limited number of seats is available the days of the event.

The New York Conversations will be followed by the production of A Prior Magazine #18 and its festive presentation at Beursschouwburg Brussels (10-11 october 2008).

Participants and visitors are advised to respect the following rules* :

-It is necessary to listen to others if one wants to have their attention

-Above all things and upon all occasions, avoid speaking of yourself

-Being over confident and peremptory does very much unfit men for conversation

-Avoid too excessive pedantic or technical speech (like direct interrogation, the use of imperatives and short answers such as ‘Yes’ and above all ‘No’)

-Adapt your conversation to the people you are conversing with

-Honourable people must never use a low word in their speech

-Subjects to avoid for men: ‘hunting, hawking and the War of the Netherlands; for women: fashionable clothes and housewifery. In general avoid talking about one’s children, telling one’s dreams or boasting of one’s nobility or riches.

-It is a great fault to be too fond of keeping silent

-don’t talk when you eat, it makes people think you are not enjoying the food

-It is better to be a men of few words than a ciarlatore

-No one speaks to the king during his public meals unless he addresses him first

And ofcourse:
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof must one be silent

*see Peter Burke, The Art of Conversation in Early Modern Europe, 1993

More A Prior News :

– Special sponsorship.doc offer for A Prior Magazine #18

-A Prior Magazine takes part in the groupshow L’Art en Europe at the Domaine De Pommery, Reims, France (1 juli until 31 december 2008) www.pommery.com
-A Prior also is part of Kiosk: Modes of Multiplications, on show at Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Suisse (26 june until 14 september 2008) www.centre.ch
-New articles online: Jalal Toufic, Something I’m Dying to Tell You, Lyn

On Paper I : A Prior #17
On Paper II: Print series

A Prior ready to hand

A Special Project in two parts in collaboration with the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art.

A Prior #17
Scene for New Heritage, 2004, Collage, David Maljković [front cover]
Over and Over, (graph n. 50), 2008, Kateřina Šedá [back cover]

‘Zuhandenheit’ [ready-to-hand] – a Heideggerian term used to explore the meaning and functionality of objects in relation to man / human beings – is activated throughout On Paper by making readable objects available to the visitors of the biennale; and by creating a tangible echo of the biennale works on paper. This ‘Zuhandenheit’ is not only grounded in the form of the project, but also in the content of the first part of On Paper I: A Prior #17_ with artists David Maljković, Daniel Knorr, Kristina Norman, Kateřina Šedá and Alexander Vaindorf.

On Paper II: print series consists of six separate publications and limited editions conceived by Ahmet Öğüt, Kristina Norman, Manon de Boer, Susanne Kriemann, Cezary Bodzianowski and Paulina Olowska. Each of these editions forms a unique ‘object’ that, as paper, is tied to the dematerialized realm of conceptual art, but that also cannot be thought of outside its object status. As such they may be the quintessential ‘things that cast no shadow’, thus sounding a tangible echo of certain works at the biennial.

On Paper Presented :: at PRO-QM, Almstadtstrasse 48-50, 10119 Berlin, on Friday, April 4th, between 3 and 5 pm.

On Paper Available :: on display and available at KW, Institut for Contemporary Art, Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin and through the usual distribution network; the printseries may be ordered directly from our Ghent Office

A Prior Magazine #16 _ On Sound, Song and Collaboration

A Prior Magazine #16 : features Anouk De Clercq (BE), Susan Philipsz (UK) and Renzo Martens (NL), artists whose work has inspired varied reflections on collaboration.

If A Prior may be understood always to involve close collaboration with contributing artists and authors relying on a critical proximity and dialogue A Prior Magazine #16 has extended the everyday practice of collaboration to a set of historical and philosophical questions regarding collaboration and notions of intense engagement.

Launches:
21 February 2008, 8.30pm at Beursschouwburg Brussels (Auguste Ortsstraat 20, 1000 Brussels) on the occasion of An evening with Auguste Orts #1: a mishmash of sound and image.

27 February 2008, 7pm at KASK, Gent (J. Kluyskensstraat 6 , 9000 Ghent) on the occasion of the opening of KIOSK with ao a conversation between Renzo Martens and Els Roelandt